Censorship

Former employees of New York arts organisation claim they were fired for supporting artists’ pro-Palestine statement

Two former employees of Eyebeam, an art and technology non-profit in Brooklyn, believe they were fired for supporting a call to endorse the Palestinian Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel, a claim the organisation's leader says is a "misunderstanding"

Covering up displays about women and people of colour was ‘a mistake’, Maryland's National Cryptologic Museum says

A photograph of exhibits at the museum covered with brown paper, seemingly in response to President Trump’s anti-DEI order, caused an uproar on social media

Artist Fareed Armaly rejects German prize, citing ‘disturbing trend of censorship’

The Academy of Arts, stressing it rejects all censorship, says it will not award the Käthe Kollwitz prize this year

Comment | Censorship in the US is rearing its ugly head again—but the art world isn't taking it lying down

As anxieties grow about a new era of cultural repression, artists and institutions are finding ways to come together and push back

Police seize Sally Mann photographs at Texas museum amid accusations of child pornography

A 1990s culture-war déjà vu at the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth—with the same photographs causing a stir decades later

Film news

Cuban documentary about government censorship of the arts wins top film festival prize

Miguel Coyula’s "Chronicles of the Absurd" provides a rare inside view of artist interactions with an oppressive government

Bill that would allow Trump to designate art non-profits as 'terrorist organisations' advances to US Senate

The controversial bill has raised worries among Democrats who fear that Trump will exploit it for personal retribution

Censorshipcomment

The limits of transnational women’s solidarity in Mexico City’s art scene

Recent episodes of censorship at two of the city’s leading art museums have laid bare the rifts between artists, institutions and their publics

Warnews

Myanmar’s cultural life continues to deteriorate amid civil war

Censorship and the risk of conscription have forced many artists to flee the country—and face under-representation abroad

Former museum curator accuses city in Arizona of censorship in lawsuit

The former chief curator of the Mesa Contemporary Arts Museum is suing the municipality for allegedly ordering the removal of a print from a Shepard Fairey exhibition

Artist sues US city that cancelled her residency over a pro-Palestine painting

Danielle SeeWalker and the American Civil Liberties Union of Colorado are suing the town of Vail, alleging its decisions violated her free speech rights

‘We are down here fighting for our lives’: Texas exhibition highlights crackdowns on reproductive healthcare and abortion access

Focusing on works by artists with ties to the American South, “Is It Real?” raises awareness and funds for reproductive rights for communities on the front lines

Film news

'The government wants to silence these voices': Peru’s new film funding law raises censorship fears for artists

The country’s film sector and wider creative industries are wary of new laws governing the type of projects that can receive state financing

After its Gaza ‘censorship’ row, London’s Barbican to host Palestinian literature festival

Voices of Resilience, which was temporarily cancelled earlier this year by Home, Manchester, is touring to the capital for the first time

Human rightsanalysis

In Belarus, freedom of expression for writers and artists remains a dream

While reportedly nearly 1,400 political prisoners, including 163 cultural figures, remain behind bars, the government stages cultural events whose prime purpose is to bolster the regime and its autocratic leader

Sasha Skochilenko: I just happened to be the winner of the ‘Hunger Games’

The Russian artist, who was freed in a prison swap, on life under President Putin and spending more than two years in prison for an art intervention opposing Russia’s invasion of Ukraine

Nan Goldin, Brian Eno and Rosalind Nashashibi among signees of open letter accusing Royal Academy of 'anti-Palestinian censorship'

The London institution removed works from a young artists’ exhibition earlier this month after they were deemed to be anti-semitic by the Board of Deputies of British Jews

Texas city faces backlash for stripping local arts centre's funding over drag performances

The city council in Lubbock, Texas voted last week to cut $30,000 in grant money to a free monthly art walk

St Louis gallery takes down artists' pro-Palestine exhibition after deeming it anti-semitic

The abrupt closure of the Craft Alliance exhibition came as a shock to the two featured artists

Cancelling Kehinde Wiley shows ‘does a disservice to the audiences’, anti-censorship group claims

The National Coalition Against Censorship is calling out museum leaders in Miami, Minneapolis and Omaha that cancelled or postponed Wiley’s exhibitions following sexual-assault allegations against him

New tool tracks incidents of artistic censorship related to Israel-Hamas war

The digital resource, created by US non-profit National Coalition Against Censorship, catalogues incidents from cancelled exhibitions and performances to removed works

George Grosz drawings, once at the heart of a protracted trial, acquired by Berlin’s Akademie der Künste

The German artist was charged with “publicly insulting the institutions of the Christian churches”

US city cancels artist's residency over pro-Palestine painting

Native American artist Danielle SeeWalker had turned down several opportunities to accept a residency in the upscale resort town of Vail

Cancelled Palestinian event at Manchester venue must be reinstated, say artists and curators

The Voices of Resilience project was scrapped following complaints from a local organisation representing a significant part of the Jewish community

‘Blasphemous’ painting of Jesus slashed, artist attacked at exhibition in Italian church

A petition calling for the removal of Andrea Saltini’s painting, which appears to depict the lifeless figure of Jesus receiving oral sex, garnered more than 30,000 signatures

Paris’s most famous art school at centre of censorship row after book removes all mention of #MeToo

Publication on École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts was reprinted without text on former director Jean-Marc Bustamante

Art marketanalysis

Is the art trade choosing to ignore a wider world in crisis?

Amid threats to freedom, career moves and censorship become hard to tell apart

Russian authorities interrogate and detain artists on eve of presidential election

The homes and studios of more than 30 artists in at least seven cities across the country have been raided

New documentary traces Iranian artist Nickzad Nodjoumi’s quest to retrieve his paintings decades after the Islamic Revolution

Directed by the artist’s daughter and her husband, “A Revolution on Canvas” is a heart-breaking family drama disguised as a political thriller

Collectors withdraw works from Barbican show after centre pulls its support for talk on Israel-Hamas war

Quilts by Loretta Pettway have been removed from a major textile survey at the London institution over accusations of “censorship and repression”